Behavior Quote by John Maynard Smith

We do have tendency, now in biology especially to make up stories, to make theoretical biology a kind of game, in fact we have…

— Richard Lewontin

Game theory is a branch of, originally, applied mathematics, used mostly in economics and political science, a little bit in biology, that gives us…

— Colin Camerer

I think game theory creates ideas that are important in solving and approaching conflict in general.

— Robert Aumann

There is much of economic theory which is pursued for no better reason than its intellectual attraction; it is a good game. We have…

— Sir John Richard Hicks

A thorough understanding of game theory, should dim these greedy hopes. Knowledge of game theory does not make one a better card player, businessman…

— Anatol Rapoport

The good news is that, at least in economics, I've seen movement away from its overemphasis on mathematical models of purely rational behavior to…

— Robert J. Shiller

Evolutionary game theory is a way of thinking about evolution at the phenotypic level when the fitnesses of particular phenotypes depend on their frequencies…

— John Maynard Smith

(Game theory is) essentially a structural theory. It uncovers the logical structure of a great variety of conflict situations and describes this structure in…

— Anatol Rapoport

Evolutionary game theory was originally developed as an alternative to the hypothesis of group selection; now it is clear that game theory models postulate…

— Elliott Sober

It gives evolutionary biologists great status if they champion competition and the economists have to consult them. The economists have to consult the evolutionary…

— Greg Graffin

How could economics not be behavioral? If it isn't behavioral, what the hell is it?

— Charlie Munger

Games are work. There are economies popping up in games now because people value them.

— Jane McGonigal